Possible Worlds
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2013)
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Christopher Menzel
Texas A&M University
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This article includes a basic overview of possible world semantics and a relatively comprehensive overview of three central philosophical conceptions of possible worlds: Concretism (represented chiefly by Lewis), Abstractionism (represented chiefly by Plantinga), and Combinatorialism (represented chiefly by Armstrong).
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| Keywords | possible worlds modal realism actualism possibilia combinatorialism |
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